Pirate Grrlz Pins Traditional Cache
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Pins
We seem to find them everywhere and they are (almost) as much fun to trade as geocoins. So why not have a central cache to trade pins at?
Now there is one.
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I can remember getting pin-trading fever during the Calgary '88 Olympics. I wasn't quite old enough to watch the games in the bars downtown, but that didn't stop me from spending a lot of time on Stephen Avenue and Olympic Plaza looking at and trading pins. It was a lot of fun and really made the games even more memorable for me.
Then I had the chance to attend the Vancouver 2010 games and decided to pull out my old pins, as well as some new ones that I was able to get. Once again it was great fun to talk with the traders and enjoy the spirit of the games.
This isn't a hard find, it's a camoflagued lock and lock container and there is ample parking nearby. I put a variety of pins into the cache to start it off, Olympic, Railway, Municipality and others.
A little stealth may be required as it's a busy area.
History of Pin Trading
Pin Trading, at its earliest stages, can be traced back as far as the 1896 Olympics in Athens, Greece. The first souvenir and "Official" Olympic pin was produced for the 1912 Olympics in Stockholm. The popularity exploded at the 1980 Olympics in Lake Placid. At the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles more than 17 million pins were traded in 1300 different designs. In 1999, Disney introduced pin trading at their parks and it has become one of the major activities that you can find at all of the parks. Pin Trading has also become a big part of youth sports. Many baseball, hockey, soccer, and football tournaments offer pin trading as a central part of the event, and, of course, no geocache event is complete with looking at and trading pins (and coins).
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